Ethnic Groups of Mongolia

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Posted by ethnicgroups at 7:12 PM

ethnicgroups: More than 90 percent of the country's population are Mongolian ethnic groups. The core Mongolian ethnic group, Khalkha, is distributed all over the territory of the country, making up 80 per cent of the population. The other major ethnic group, the Kazakhs, make up about 6 percent of the population and live in western Mongolia, mainly in Bayan-Ulgii Aimag. A considerable number of Kazakhs emigrated to Kazakhstan in the early 1990s, but many have since returned. As for the linguistic reference of the Mongolian population, it relates to the Mongolian group of the Altaic family except for Kazakhs. This group is composed of Khalkh, Durvud, Buryad, Bayad, Uriankhai, Zakhchin, Darkhad, Torguud, Uuld, Myangad, Barga and Uzemchin dialects